Biking has always been around as a hobby as long as bicycles have existed. Biking as a sport has also been popular for quite some time and made even more famous in the Lance Armstrong era of the sport. However, if you’ve been paying attention as of late, you may have noticed more groups of bikers in your area riding around town. Biking has been growing as a lifestyle lately, in part due to 3 particular reasons.

The western world has been suffering from an obesity epidemic, this much is clear. As a result of this, the culture of America, in particular, has turned to increasing interest in fitness and fitness based lifestyles. Biking is a great way to stay fit, just riding for 30 minutes a day can have incredible health benefits for sedentary individuals. You’re going to be improving your cardiovascular health by riding a bike, but you’ll also develop better muscle tone in your legs and core every time you take your bike out for a spin.

How often do we commute to work every day, or stay on our pre-planned routes to go to the places we frequent week to week? Do we ever truly recognize our surroundings? When you ride a bike on those same routes, you’re seeing the world up close and personal, in a way you haven’t before. You get to discover all of the little details you might miss if you just drove by haphazardly.

With many citizens working in offices in sedentary jobs, it’s more important than ever to get yourself outside into the great beyond and enjoy the breeze, enjoy nature. This is a huge reason as to why our weekend and weeklong bike tours are popular! They are a great way to get outside, get some exercise, and meet many wholesome people.

The most obvious is the increasingly common bike lane that allows bikers to get on the road instead of biking on sidewalks which may be cracked, have pedestrians on them, and also end abruptly. While they aren’t perfect, biking lanes give bikers a designated place to continue down a long stretch of road while being separated from both traffic and pedestrians via their own lane.

Not only is this great for cyclists who prefer to make trips, commute, or just enjoy a ride, but it also is becoming a more popular and cheaper way to travel about more urbanized areas such as big cities. It’s no surprise that traffic congestion in the US is a problem in many urban centers, public transportation is not always feasible nor reliable—and even those systems are strained. Biking is an incredible way to get outside or at the very least, get out of gridlock.

Come vacation time, choose to be outside and join us on the open road instead of doing the same ol’ same ol’ for your precious days off.

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